Outline FASTA, Blast searching, Smith-Waterman Psi-Blast Review of Genomic DNA structure Substitution patterns and mutation rates Synonymous and non-Synonymous substitutions Jukes-Cantor Model Kimura's Two-Parameter Model
The Language of genomics CDNAS, ESTS. BACS Alus. etc Dideoxy Method Shotgun Sequencing The 'shotgun coverage equation(Poisson) Flavors of blast BLASTIPNXJ, TBLASTINXI Statistics of High Scoring Segments
Review of DNA Seq. Comparison/Alignment Target frequencies and mismatch penalties Eukaryotic gene structure Comparative genomics applications Pipmaker(2 species comparison) Phylogenetic Shadowing(many species) Intro to DNA sequence motifs